MapGuide RFC 65 - ACE 5.6 Upgrade

This page contains a change request (RFC) for the MapGuide Open Source project. More MapGuide RFCs can be found on the RFCs page.

Status

RFC Template Version	(1.0)
Submission Date	June 4, 2009
Last Modified	Bruce Dechant Timestamp
Author	Bruce Dechant
RFC Status	draft
Implementation Status	draft
Proposed Milestone	2.2
Assigned PSC guide(s)	(when determined)
Voting History
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Overview

This RFC updates MapGuide to use the latest version of ACE.

For details, refer to ACE website:

​http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html

Motivation

There have been several bug fixies and most noticably 64bit fixes that are required in order for MapGuide to work with 64bit.

Proposed Solution

Upgrade existing OEM ACE 5.4 library to the latest ACE 5.6 library.

Implications

The only noted change that impacts MapGuide was a change to the generateUUID() API used by MapGuide to generate a unique ID. The NEW API is called generate_UUID(). They are functionally identical.

Test Plan

Build/Run on Windows/Linux.

Funding/Resources

Supplied by Autodesk.